Netflix Gets Its First Golden Globe For Best Motion Picture (Drama) (techcrunch.com) 36
Last night, Netflix's "The Power of the Dog" became the streamer's first-ever movie to take home a Golden Globe for best motion picture (drama). The movie also won for best director (Jane Campion) and best supporting actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee). As TechCrunch points out, "NBC announced in May 2021 it wouldn't broadcast the awards show this year after an investigation by The L.A. Times revealed the lack of diversity within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization that hosts the annual event, as well as evidence of some members receiving gifts that amounted to bribes. [...] Instead, the event's winners were live-tweeted in an often bizarre fashion." From the report: In addition to being an overall quieter year as the HFPA tries to reform its organization following the controversies, the winning networks also aren't touting their victories as they would normally, despite some seeing some notable firsts and upsets. In prior years, HBO would be happily promoting its sweep over rivals. The network led the night with six wins, including four for HBO and two for HBO Max. Several of these were for its TV series "Succession," which won for best TV drama, TV drama actor (Jeremy Strong) and supporting actress (Sarah Snook.) HBO Max's comedy "Hacks" also notably beat out Emmy winner "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+) as best comedy, and saw its lead, Jean Smart, win for best actress in a comedy. And Kate Winslet won best TV actress in a limited series for HBO's "Mare of Easttown."
Meanwhile, though Netflix led the year by nominations -- including for best dramatic film "The Power of the Dog" and drama series "Squid Game" -- it had said it wouldn't participate in the event until the HFPA institutes changes. That decision means it's also now not bragging about a couple of notable firsts that resulted from last night's awards. [...] In addition, Netflix's runaway hit TV series "Squid Game" received three nominations this year, leading to the first-ever win for South Korea, as South Korean actor O Yeong-su won for his role in the series, beating out "Succession's" Kieran Culkin (HBO) and "The Morning Show's" Billy Crudup (Apple TV+). Netflix also won for "tick, tick... BOOM!" when Andrew Garfield took the trophy for best actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy), though the tweet had forgotten to credit the project by name.
Apple TV+ took home one win last night, as "Ted Lasso's" Jason Sudeikis won best actor in a TV series (comedy). Hulu also got one Globe, as "Dopesick's" Michael Keaton won best actor in a TV limited series or motion picture made for television, while Amazon Prime Video's "The Underground Railroad" won the category. Amazon Prime Video's "Being the Ricardos" was highlighted with Nicole Kidman's win as best actress in a motion picture. In another milestone, the first trans actress to win a Golden Globe, FX's "Pose" star Michaela Jae Rodriguez, took home the trophy for best actress in a drama. 20th Century Studio/Disney's "West Side Story" won best picture (musical or comedy) and its stars, Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose, won best actress and supporting actress, respectively. Disney's "Encanto," which streamed on Disney+ just a month after hitting theaters, won best animated picture. Warner Bros.' "Dune" got the trophy for best score (Hans Zimmer), and Will Smith was named best actor in a motion picture (drama) for "King Richard." The best non-English language picture award went to the Japanese film "Drive My Car." You can view the full list of winners here.
Meanwhile, though Netflix led the year by nominations -- including for best dramatic film "The Power of the Dog" and drama series "Squid Game" -- it had said it wouldn't participate in the event until the HFPA institutes changes. That decision means it's also now not bragging about a couple of notable firsts that resulted from last night's awards. [...] In addition, Netflix's runaway hit TV series "Squid Game" received three nominations this year, leading to the first-ever win for South Korea, as South Korean actor O Yeong-su won for his role in the series, beating out "Succession's" Kieran Culkin (HBO) and "The Morning Show's" Billy Crudup (Apple TV+). Netflix also won for "tick, tick... BOOM!" when Andrew Garfield took the trophy for best actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy), though the tweet had forgotten to credit the project by name.
Apple TV+ took home one win last night, as "Ted Lasso's" Jason Sudeikis won best actor in a TV series (comedy). Hulu also got one Globe, as "Dopesick's" Michael Keaton won best actor in a TV limited series or motion picture made for television, while Amazon Prime Video's "The Underground Railroad" won the category. Amazon Prime Video's "Being the Ricardos" was highlighted with Nicole Kidman's win as best actress in a motion picture. In another milestone, the first trans actress to win a Golden Globe, FX's "Pose" star Michaela Jae Rodriguez, took home the trophy for best actress in a drama. 20th Century Studio/Disney's "West Side Story" won best picture (musical or comedy) and its stars, Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose, won best actress and supporting actress, respectively. Disney's "Encanto," which streamed on Disney+ just a month after hitting theaters, won best animated picture. Warner Bros.' "Dune" got the trophy for best score (Hans Zimmer), and Will Smith was named best actor in a motion picture (drama) for "King Richard." The best non-English language picture award went to the Japanese film "Drive My Car." You can view the full list of winners here.
Awards shows (Score:2)
Awards shows seem less and less relevant every year that passes.
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Was about to say the same... They used to be politicized before but these years, it feels like it has gotten worse and worse. When Identity joined politics on stage, the criteria for the awards have been completely disconnected from any quality and skill requirements. At least IMO.
These days, if I want to see whether I want to spend my time on a new piece of media, I see whether a youtube critic that has similar taste to me has made a video about it. Everything else seems just a waste. IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes
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Now, I know everything is garbage and a total waste of my time, so it saves me from even bothering with looking into things at all.
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These days, if I want to see whether I want to spend my time on a new piece of media, I see whether a youtube critic that has similar taste to me has made a video about it. Everything else seems just a waste. IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes... the scores are useless. The critic scores are no different from award shows and the user scores might have been bombed...
Literally worthless as a source to base a decision on.
Critical Drinker on YT is my go-to reviewer.
Also Doomcock,(Overlord) and Clownfish TV. What fun when Geeky Sparkles kicks in the afterburners to full roast!
Unfortunately, Hollywood has transitioned Charlies Angels from a lighthearted comedy/drama to a movie comedy/drama to striking against the patriarchy, and wrecking it is what Hollywood is all about today. Or in your face Reboots like the all female Ghostbusters, or the latest Oceans movie (that one is weird, because women have always been in them.
No
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Was about to say the same... They used to be politicized before but these years, it feels like it has gotten worse and worse. When Identity joined politics on stage, the criteria for the awards have been completely disconnected from any quality and skill requirements. At least IMO.
I agree they're losing relevance, but I disagree why. Award shows have lost relevance because they're live events, best watched as live events, and those translate poorly to streaming platforms.
Which is also probably why streaming shows/movies have trouble winning awards.
These days, if I want to see whether I want to spend my time on a new piece of media, I see whether a youtube critic that has similar taste to me has made a video about it. Everything else seems just a waste. IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes... the scores are useless. The critic scores are no different from award shows and the user scores might have been bombed...
Literally worthless as a source to base a decision on.
Again I'd disagree. If a movie wins a bunch of awards it doesn't mean I'll love it, but it's a good bet that I'll at least enjoy it.
It also depends on the type of award. If a film wins the Palme d'Or [wikipedia.org] I know it's going to be a very high qual
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Things didn't "become" identity politics. They always were. The thing that changed is people started speaking out about it.
The HFPA had no black members from 2002 to 2018.
The Golden Globes had institutionalized their bias.
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https://www.vox.com/culture/20... [vox.com]
There is little relevance to who wins on actual merit. Now they demand diversity in the winners the movie going public doesn't care so it doesn't watch personally if a movie wins an award not really one to watch
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When the awards are actually based on behind the scenes lobbying by the actors and studios
https://www.vox.com/culture/20... [vox.com]
There is little relevance to who wins on actual merit. Now they demand diversity in the winners the movie going public doesn't care so it doesn't watch personally if a movie wins an award not really one to watch
Great link. Movie awards are marketing ploys. Personally I have ignored them for the last few decades. Today we have much better free tools to evaluate whether a movie is any good before watching it.
In fact awards in many other areas are also marketing or political tools. Even the Nobel Prize.
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The reality is the industry has changed a lot and some of these institutions simply have not caught up and its not just the marketing pomp and circumstance stuff its the distribution model, the industry practice around piracy everything.
There is just so much content now! In the late 80's or early 90s anything up for an award you'd probably at least seen a trailer for. Half the winners listing in the summary I am left going 'wtf is that' heard about some of them like 'Squid Game' of course but for much of it
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I wouldn't take Rotten Tomatoes as a guide to how much ordinary people actually like a movie. It gets bombed regularly, with both positive and negative reviews.
Box office take isn't a bad measure, but under-values classics like Blade Runner that were only appreciated after their initial run.
There are companies that survey moviegoers as they leave the cinema. The movie studios pay them for the data. Seems like a reasonably good metric.
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Let this year be the nail in the coffin.
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Diversity now means black actors can portray white British aristocracy in otherwise historically accurate movies like Anne Boelyn, but somehow other races playing each other are unforgivable sins. Our culture has died and the new generation's culture is malformed and stillborn. The age of reason is dead. Our civilization is dead. What we see are just the twitches of it's cooling corpse, ripening for the carrion eaters. All this stupidity going on is merely the rising stench that attracts vultures and ja
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I honestly don't see why it should be matter unless race is somehow tied very directly to the story.
We all know that the 16th C British aristocracy would have looked like, it does not bother me a black actor would be cast for such a role.
I agree though there would be outrage if someone cast a white guy to play a 18 Century Zulu warrior or something. It should work both ways.
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I honestly don't see why it should be matter unless race is somehow tied very directly to the story.
We all know that the 16th C British aristocracy would have looked like, it does not bother me a black actor would be cast for such a role.
You do; I do. Does a 16 year old kid watching know?
By presenting a British past which is racially mixed, you present a world where prejudice didn't exist - a whitewashing of history, in fact. Once you say there was no prejudice you are saying there was no struggle for equality, since it apparently already existed. It's fundamentally dishonest in a historical context and Iannucci's version of David Copperfield, for example, was a misguided and deeply offensive project.
Something like James Bond or Spiderman a
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Said 16 year old kid should probably not be learning history from hollywood movies. If they discover a historical event through some entertainment medium hopefully they would go do a little exploration of it and maybe learn something about demographics at the time.
Men mostly played the roles of women in classical theater. It wasn't an issue and it wasn't a secret. None of this really matters. Its not whitewashing history its entertainment. Now if the film was a 'documentary' ok than you could rightly fault
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Is it the public, or Hollywood pushing these issues?
Yes, there's always going to be fringe people - racists and sexists that hate a film because of an actor's race/sex, and people reacting to that. But that tends to exist in an echo chamber of bigots and people reacting to those bigots.
The cynical side of me thinks Hollywood exploits this to dismiss movie cr
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Agreed. I think NBC would have used any reason it could to drop showing it. The diversity angle was as good as any and gave them bonus virtual signaling points.
It's all bullhshit, not playing (Score:2)
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I'm already paying $110/mo for a shitty connection with SpectrumMOFOs
My Spectrum bill was up to $74.99 when I canceled earlier this year. I was totally going to switch to T-Mobile Broadband, but they didn't bother coming to my area before a local fiber company. Still, they eventually contacted me to say T-Mobile is $50/mo, which isn't too bad.
I won "Most disinterested person (Golden Globe)" (Score:2)
Nobody cared. Neither did I. We're all winners. At least it feels that way. How long is that list?
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Entertainment Industry Award Shows (Score:2)
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Who cares! Just the rich doing whatever it is the rich do.
What they do is give each other awards for doing their jobs.
Pity it was crap (Score:2)
The movie is slow, simplistic, and almost obsessive about spelling out what is going on for even the slowest 4-year-old in the audience.
Looks good and has some good performances, though. But there are prizes for those things individually and they're not enough to make it a good movie.
That's odd, the address bar shows slashdot.org (Score:2)
Oh for the love of ... (Score:2)
As TechCrunch points out, "NBC announced in May 2021 it wouldn't broadcast the awards show this year after an investigation by The L.A. Times revealed the lack of diversity within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization that hosts the annual event,
The world has gone insane.
I'm sure there is a lack of diversity. I'm sure they are pretty much all limousine liberals.
What's that ... not what you meant?
I would never understand Oscar's position (Score:2)
about not allowing movies not run in theatres.
I mean, it's like saying that a book can't be presented to Nobel because it was print-on-demand.
Also, I find quite amusing that the American Film Industry moved west to avoid paying royalties don't want to acknowledge video-on-demand which avoid their theatres taxes... I mean, they're on the same level...
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They make money from running in theaters. Does not seem like that much of a puzzle.
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Then, they should advertise the Oscars not as "best" motion picture, but as "best they allow to play in their own theaters after payment".
So that award is still a thing? (Score:2)
Sad (Score:2)
Power of the Dog was an ok movie. Within top few tiers of Hollywood. Netflix, however, had numerous MUCH better movies in 2021, but not from Hollywood. Golden Globe voters only cover Hollywood. It's sort of like CES only covering Blackberry.